Sally Field Quotes

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• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

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  Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

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  Magic, Sometimes, Strikes

  "Sally Field, ‘Lincoln’ Star, On Politics And Looking Back On ‘Smokey And The Bandit’". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.

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  Thinking, Important, Minutes

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

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  Children, Profound, Achievement

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• I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

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  Chance

  "Actress and Activist". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. July 4, 2008.

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• If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place.

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  Mother, War, World

  "The Emmys censored Sally Field!". goldderby.latimes.com. September 17, 2007.

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• My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

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  Agents, Good Enough, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Quit thinking about your weight and start thinking about your worth and who you are and what you haven't done yet. What you want to accomplish.

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  Thinking About You, Want, Done

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• The people who stand on the sidelines and criticize aren't actually in the arena, spilling their blood.

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  People, Criticize

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2008.

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• The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.

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  Waiting, Needs, World

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• Fear is where the information is.

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  Knowledge, Information

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• In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you're the same person you always were.

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  Fall, Reality, People

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.

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  Success, Mom, Motherhood

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• I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.

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  Letting Go, Thinking, People

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• I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

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  Peaceful, Feelings, Excited

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• I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you.

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  Character, Eye, Opportunity

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• And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.

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  Moving, Cat, Feet

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• Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

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  Lawyer, Found, Mary

  "OSCARS Q&A: Sally Field". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 12, 2012.

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• If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.

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  Character, Opportunity, Emotional

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• If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

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  Forever, Might, Has Beens

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• I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

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  Facts, Deny, Acceptance Speech

  Sally Field's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 25, 1985.

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• Change is never easy.

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  Easy

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• You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

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  Trying, Weighing

  "Sally Field Talks Unrequited Love, Wild Wardrobe in "Doris". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. March 8, 2016.

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• You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

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  May, Littles, Neurotic

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

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  Eye, Long, Judging

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